Carey hits out at ‘naive’ bishops in poverty row

The welfare state has reached “gargantuan” proportions and bishops are doing the Church no favours by entering the political debate about benefit cuts, a former Archbishop of Canterbury warns today.

Lord Carey of Clifton says that it was simplistic for Church leaders, including the head of Britain’s Catholics and 27 Anglican bishops, to blame cuts for the rising use of food banks.

Such opposition to reducing the welfare bill was “Canute-like” and reflected an “overt left-right politicisation of Church versus government”.

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